Free & open source · Works fully offline

Make your screen look this good.

Screenshots, screen recordings and polished screen videos — in one small, native Mac app that lives in your menu bar.

Download for macOS View on GitHub

v1.0.0macOS 15 or laterApple silicon & IntelMIT License

✛ Psst — drag anywhere up here to take a screenshot.

01Screenshots

Capture anything.
Explain it in seconds.

An area, a window, the full screen, the same area again, a whole scrolling page. Then point at what matters.

Arrows
Shapes
Text
Pen & highlighter
Blur & pixelate
Spotlight
Numbered steps
Crop
Backgrounds & padding

The Annotate editor: numbered steps, a highlight, a blurred line and an arrow over a screenshot

On-device

Auto Redact finds the secrets before your audience does.

Daisyshot reads the text in your screenshot and covers only the value, so the label next to it stays readable. It all runs on your Mac with Apple's Vision.

API keys & secrets
Passwords
Emails
Phone numbers
Card numbers
ID numbers
Bank accounts
Faces
Your own patterns

API access

Keys for the production workspace

Redacted on-device

OwnerMaria Lopez

Emailmaria.lopez@acme.io

Secret keysk_live_9f2aK7Qx81LmZc41

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Requests today12,480

…and a whole toolbox more.

Scrolling capture

Capture a whole page, chat or document as one tall image. It can scroll for you.

Invoice no. DS-2026-0114
Total due $1,280.00

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Copy text from anything

Drag over a video, an image or a locked PDF and the text is on your clipboard.

github.com/tamhd148/daisyshot

QR codes

Read a QR code straight off the screen. No phone needed.

Pin on top

Keep a reference floating above every window while you work.

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Self-timer

Set up a menu or a hover state, then let the countdown take the shot.

⌘CCopy
⌘SSave
⌘EAnnotate
⌘PPin

Quick Access

Every shot lands in a small card. Hover it and press a key, or drag it straight into another app.

Search history

Capture history

Everything you captured, searchable. Closed a card by mistake? Bring it back.

02Studio

Hit record. Work like you always do.
Daisyshot does the polish.

The usual way
A raw screen recording. Flat, cramped, hard to follow.
Backgrounds, padding, shadows
macOS wallpapers, gradients or your own image, with rounded corners.
Zooms that follow your cursor
Placed for you where the action is, and editable on the timeline.
A smooth, bigger cursor
Shaky mouse paths become glides, with click effects and motion blur.
Keystrokes on screen
Shortcuts appear as you press them, so viewers can follow along.
Typing, sped up
Typing stretches are found for you. Speed them up in one click.
Camera bubble
Put your face in the corner, or switch to camera-only for a moment.
Every format, one export
Fill the frame and follow the cursor for 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5, queued after the main video.

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Typing detected · 4× faster

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Automatic by default. Yours to the last frame.

The Studio editor: preview, cursor settings and a timeline with typing, keystroke, clip and zoom tracks

A real timeline

Cut, trim, split and speed up clips. Move a zoom, stretch it, or delete it.

Masks that find the text

Blur and highlight masks locate sensitive text in the recording, and warn when it moves.

Sound, sorted

Background music, noise reduction and loudness normalization, built in.

Presets & Quick Export

Save your look once. Export right after recording without opening the editor.

Record anything

A display, a window, an area, or an iPhone or iPad over USB. Microphone and per-app system audio.

Made for presenting

Speaker notes and a teleprompter, click highlights, GIF or MP4, and crash recovery if anything goes wrong.

Exported straight from the Studio editor. Background, zooms, cursor and keystrokes were added after recording.

03Privacy

No account. No cloud. No tracking.

Nothing leaves your Mac.

The only request it ever makes

Once a day Daisyshot asks GitHub whether there's a newer release. Nothing about you or your files is sent, and you can turn it off. Updates install only if they carry Daisyshot's Ed25519 release signature.

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Permissions, only when a feature needs them

Screen & System Audio Recording: Screenshots and screen recordings
Accessibility: Keystrokes, typing detection, bringing windows to the front
Camera & Microphone: The camera bubble and your voice

04Keyboard first

Fast hands welcome.
Scripts too.

All-in-one bar⌥⇧⌘5
Capture area⌥⇧⌘4
Capture full screen⌥⇧⌘3
Capture window⌥⇧⌘W
Scrolling capture⌥⇧⌘8
Capture text⌥⇧⌘2
Record screen⌥⇧⌘6
Hide desktop icons⌥⇧⌘D

# Drive Daisyshot from scripts, launchers and Shortcuts
$ open "daisyshot://capture-area?action=copy"
$ open "daisyshot://capture-text"
$ open "daisyshot://record-screen"
$ open "daisyshot://pin?filepath=~/Desktop/spec.png"

Every shortcut can be changed, and the Studio editor has its own remappable set. Other apps need your OK the first time they send a command.

0third-party dependencies

100%native Swift, SwiftUI and AppKit

5languages: English, Tiếng Việt, 한국어, 日本語, 简体中文

MITlicensed. Read it, build it, fork it.

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